Pasquale Squitieri

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Pasquale Squitieri (born November 27, 1938 in Naples , † February 18, 2017 in Rome ) was an Italian film director and politician.

Life

Squitieri turned to the film business after an assistantship with Francesco Rosi and journalistic activities for the Italian newspaper Paese Sera . At the end of the 1960s he made his debut as a film director with the film Io e dio , where, as in various later works, he addressed the history and the present of his home region. With Io e dio he dealt critically with the religion in Sicily, while with Camorra - speeches means to die - he depicted the underworld of Naples. From 1975 he lived with the Italian actress Claudia Cardinale for 26 years . With her he had the daughter Claudia. In 2013 Squitieri married the actress and singer Ottavia Fusco.

The convinced communist preferred to portray the life and power structures as well as the general, mostly bad, living conditions of the people and combined his worldview with possibilities for change. His work also includes the two Italo-Western Django sfida Sartana (1970) and Three Amen for Satan (1971), filmed under the pseudonym William Redford .

Over time he moved more and more to the right politically. In 1994 he was elected to the Senate for the post-fascist Alleanza Nazionale party.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1969: Io e Dio
  • 1970: Django sfida Sartana
  • 1971: Three Amen for Satan (La vendetta è un piatto che si serve freddo)
  • 1972: Camorra (Camorra)
  • 1974: Revenge of the Camorra (I Guappi)
  • 1975: Harley Riders - They knew no mercy (L'Ambizioso)
  • 1977: The Rise of the Godfather (Corleone)
  • 1977: I am vengeance (Il Prefetto di ferro)
  • 1979: The Gun (L'Arma)
  • 1980: Savage Breed (Razza selvaggia)
  • 1984: Claretta Petacci (Claretta)
  • 1985: The Denouncer (Il Pentito)
  • 1988: Russicum - The Vatican Conspiracy (Russicum - I giorni del diavolo)
  • 1991: Act of Sorrow (Atto di dolore)
  • 1999: Li chiamarono… briganti!
  • 2003: Counselor de Gregorio (L'avvocato de Gregorio)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Italian director Pasquale Squitieri has died. (No longer available online.) In: Vorarlberg Online . Russmedia , February 18, 2017, archived from the original on February 21, 2017 ; Retrieved February 20, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Scheda di attività di Pasquale Squitieri - XII Legislatura. In: senato.it. Senato della Repubblica , accessed February 19, 2017 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Squitieri, Pasquale
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Redford, William (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian film director and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples , Campania , Italy
DATE OF DEATH 18th February 2017
Place of death Rome , Lazio , Italy